Following
the 2013 marathon bombings, Mass General was invited by the Boston Athletic
Association to create a special team of runners. For the sixth straight year,
thanks to a partnership with John Hancock, the Mass General Emergency Response
Team will aim to collectively raise $430,000 this year. To date, the Emergency
Response Team has raised over $1.9 million. The funding raised by the
marathon team is critical to the Emergency Department’s efforts to develop
tools and training programs to continually advance its ability
to respond to man-made and natural disasters. This year the funds
will also support pediatric emergency response programs, ensuring the youngest
and most vulnerable patients continue to receive state-of-the-art and
compassionate care in a child-friendly environment.

“We
are grateful to our runners and the awareness they bring to emergency medicine
at Mass General,” said David Brown, MD, Chief of Emergency Medicine at
Massachusetts General Hospital. “These funds support the vital training and
resources needed to develop a carefully, integrated response that spans
multiple departments throughout the hospital.”
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